Stephen Colbert has made an impassioned plea to Americans, pleading to support a rapper known as Kanye West, who desperately needs help to cover his $53 million in debt.
In a hilarious new video, the talk show host begins by criticising the widely reported attitudes held by Kanye towards both The Grammys and Taylor Swift, pronouncing him as a “visionary toddler” in the process.
Colbert first examine Kanye’s Twitter request for $1 billion to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. He then pulled out the organisational chart for ‘Ye’s creative company DONDA, which was Tweeted by West in order to reveal where the $1 billion would go.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/699108088687755264
After dissecting certain categories of the chart, including ’emoticon auto-correct’ and ‘seven screen movie experience,’ Colbert stated that, “I love this chart… it’s like an eight year old imagining their treehouse.”
“Billionaires, it’s time to do what’s right for the little guy….. let’s stop selfishly helping the country of Africa (see original tweet here) and start helping Kanye West because if you don’t, you’re not gonna get one of those cool new wolves.”
Watch the video in full below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHSgB6QO1Yo
Kanye was due to release his new album The Life of Pablo last week.
However, the release has been delayed so Kanye can continue work on the album.
It will also apparently “never be for sale” and will only be available for streaming on TIDAL.
The saga continues.
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When did Stephen Colbert become go-to-man for hip hop releases? Since Chance the Rapper already spilled the beans about being in the studio with Colbert, you have probably watching The Late Show intently, waiting for the track. Well, the wait is over – Angels dropped live on Monday’s show alongside Saba and the Social Experiment.
Colbert recently had Run The Jewels collaborate with TV on the Radio and then signed Run The Jewels to a multi-album deal. He had Kendrick Lamar as the final musical guest on The Colbert Report; Kendrick performed a spine-tingling new song which the audience adored so much that Colbert had no choice but to get Kendrick in for the second episode of what is now The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. And this week, he had Chance the Rapper perform another new single.
Before the performance on the show, the track appeared on iTunes as a free download. Click here to get a copy and check out the video below.
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Early in the show, before Chance came out to rap, Colbert played the clip of Chance’s recent interview on Hot 97 and then teased the rapper about revealing their ‘secret’ collaboration. Colbert also talked to Chance about the decision to release the music for free. “Not making money is actually a growing business model,” joked Colbert, who then kindly let Chance get back to doing what he does best.
This is the third single of Chance’s that we have heard this month, as well as the Snakehips track with Tinashe collab All My Friends. Needless to say, anticipation is building around the rumoured third mixtape.